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When I was six in the summer of 1941 I was staying with my Grandparents on their farm in Lincolnshire. We were not far from Coningsby Air Base and one day during a dog fight between the RAF and Luftwaffe, two German planes came down, there was a terrific bang. A carrier arrived to take away the wreckage and had great difficultly to get through gates and along the farm track.

An Italian Prisoner of War working on the farm, found a piece of Perspex from the crashed aircraft window and with it he made me a ring, which I kept until I was about twenty.

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